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A Scandal in Bohemia is the first short story, and the third overall work, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle\'s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes . It is the first of the 56 Holmes short stories written by Doyle and the first of 38 Sherlock Holmes works illustrated by Sidney Paget . The story is notable for introducing the character of Irene Adler, who is one of the most notable female characters in the Sherlock Holmes series, despite appearing in only one story . Doyle ranked A Scandal in Bohemia fifth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories . In this story The King of Bohemia hires Holmes to get an incriminating photograph from Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Holmes .